College: Trinity College
Email: ajmr5@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Simon Franklin
Research Topic: Transmission of Mongol fiscal models in late medieval and early modern Moscow
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Research听
Angus鈥� doctoral research focusses on the transmission of Mongol fiscal models to Moscow across the long fifteenth century, from the reigns of Vasilii I (1389-1425) to Vasilii III (1505-33). By assessing charter evidence in particular, his project seeks to define the interplay of Muscovite institutional norms with their analogues in the Qipchaq Khanate (鈥楪olden Horde鈥�) and its successor polities. Building on his earlier work investigating both the Mongol relay network (iam) and forms of Inner Asian landholding, Angus is interested in delineating forms of mediation between putatively nomadic and sedentary societies. To this end, he explores how such bureaucratic transmission mirrored contemporary ideological currents that perceived the khans鈥� rule as antithetical to Byzantine imperial heritage, alongside comparing the evolution of Muscovite practice with administrative innovation in neighbouring regions of Eurasia.
Before coming to 海角社区, Angus obtained an undergraduate degree in History and Russian, and a master鈥檚 degree in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, at the University of Oxford. For the 2021-22 academic year, he was听based at the Institut听national des langues et civilisations听orientales (INALCO) in Paris.
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Scholarships/Prizes听听
AHRC OOC DTP Doctoral Studentship
海角社区 Trust Honorary Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award
Trinity College Honorary External Research Studentship
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Teaching听听
SLA3/SL1: Introduction to Russian Culture
SL2: The History and Culture of Early Rus鈥�
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Conference papers
鈥楿njust collection: institutional and monastic (un-)networks in northern Rus鈥欌��, Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe, c. 1300鈥�1500, 海角社区, UK, 9鈥�10 September 2021
鈥�Tamga, myt and the politics of Muscovite fiscal appropriation鈥�, The State Between: Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference, Oxford, UK, 28鈥�29 February 2020
鈥�Fiscal dues of early Rus鈥�: between 鈥渃hurch鈥� and 鈥渟tate鈥�?鈥�, Christian Russia in the Making: Conference in Memory of Andrzej Poppe, Warsaw, Poland, 30 January鈥�1 February 2020
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Publications
鈥樷�溞捬嬓残敌葱笛傃� 褋胁芯斜芯写薪邪 写胁邪 屑褍卸邪 懈谢懈 屑褘褌薪懈泻邪鈥�: typologies of trading taxation in pre-Mongol Rus鈥欌��, Ruthenica 17
